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By: carmelbeach VALDEMIRO PACHECO: ARRESTED IN NICARAGUA

18 Aug 2010, 04:35 PM EDT
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VALDEMIRO PACHECO: ARRESTED IN NICARAGUA

ALLEGED DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING

http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/80880

[google translation]

Pretrial confinement for alleged launderers

Ernesto Garcia
END - 22:28 - 09/08/2010

Pacheco Valdemiro Canadian and Nicaraguan lawyers Pastor Orlando Reyes and Jose Benito Dolores Talavera Siles, the latter best known among his colleagues as "Pedron," were sentenced to 22 days of pretrial confinement.

This is provided for the alternate Fifth District Judge Criminal Court of Managua, José Luis Araica, after admitting the charges where the prosecutor complained to the lawyers of the alleged perpetrators of the crimes of money laundering and organized crime.

The prosecution supported by the Attorney General's Office, PGR, also goes against the ex-convict straightened Bismarck Antonio Jiron and Brenda Lira Palacios Jiron, who have not yet been captured.

Suspicious transactions

In November 2009 the accused appeared before Reinaldo Valenzuela Castillo, owner of the farm The Lomas, offering one million $ 786,000 to purchase part of the property.

Defendants in the amount of money above mentioned, I bought a 2000 102 Valenzuela blocks from the 3000 extension 519 blocks of the property covered by the indictment filed by the Prosecution.

Accepted the deal, the lawyer Benito Reyes made public deed number 95, where it appears as buyer Brenda Lira Palacios, same as on 22 December of that year tried to deposit in a bank branch in Esteli, 407 000 $ 85 on an account for Valenzuela, but could not, because they could not justify the origin of the money to the bank.

"Pedron the farmer

Then the lawyer Reyes made public deed number 98 of promise of sale, where it appears his colleague José Dolores Talavera as a buyer of the property. Talavera then opened an account in your name at another bank, which made five deposits 100 to $ 250,000 between 11 and January 19, 2010 in favor of Valenzuela.

Paper company

To give legality to the money, the accused Vladimir Pacheco used the company "Velcor Nicaragua. SA”, to simulate the alleged purchase of logging rights to the accused Talavera.

Those royalties were on a farm of 300 hectares located in the indigenous community of Kakamuklaya in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, in the amount of 39 million 780 000 cordobas. I also headed a company called International Ip.
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http://www.pgr.gob.ni/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=909&Itemid=1

[google translation]

Otherwise active PGR's Organized Crime and Money Laundering

The Attorney General's Office, through Dr Tatiana Martinez, Assistant Attorney intervened in the Initial Preliminary Hearing, which requested the admission of the indictment against a Canadian and four Nicaraguans for the crimes of organized crime and laundering Money.

The defendants are: José Dolores Talavera Siles, Bismarck Antonio Jiron, Valdemiro Pacheco, Orlando Benito Pastora and Brenda Palacios Reyes Jiron.

Martinez explained that this is a group that has been formed since 2007, with the support of the leader of the Organization, Bismarck Jiron Antonio Lira, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the crime of drug trafficking.

For now, three of the five accused in detention, before the indictment was presented against them on charges of Organized Crime and Money Laundering by more than one million 800 thousand dollars that had entered the financial system through transactions different financial institutions and the acquisition of movable and immovable assets on their behalf, which could justify a lawful manner the money obtained illegally from drug trafficking.

The National Police, giving another blow to drug trafficking, investigating the accused Bismarck Jiron Antonio Lira and / or Jiron Lira for the commission of crimes related to drug trafficking, since 2005.

After the hearing, the PGR expected a conviction for the accused, as there is sufficient evidence to prove the crimes that damage the Nicaraguan state.

The PGR was instrumental in this case, investigative actions with the National Police, from the afternoon of August 4 and asked for injunctive relief and precautelares about Real Property acquired by the defendants.

Managua, August 13, 2010.
Public Relations Department and Citizenship.
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www.laprensa.com.ni/2010/08/18/nacionales/34924

August 18, 2010

[google translation]

They tried to circumvent the financial system

* Legal proceedings against the group that tried to buy a property with money that could not substantiate

By: Elizabeth Romero

Unable to justify the source of a deposit to a bank for $ 407,000 did not prevent a group of suspects sought other resources to infiltrate the National Financial System, with deposits to wash drug money.

On 22 December last year Jiron Brenda Palacios made a deposit of more than $ 407,000 in a bank branch in Estelí, to account number 1002-12-16795934, owned by Reynaldo Benito Valenzuela, who wanted to buy the farm The Lomas, located in the region and Olama Aguas Caliente, the municipality of Muy Muy, Matagalpa. But the day after the institution refused the deposit because Palacios was unable to justify the lawful origin of the money.

According to the prosecution, Palacios integrates a group of several people led by Bismarck Shred or Jiron Antonio Lira Lira, who tried to legitimize capital proceeds of illicit drug trafficking.

The indictment submitted by the prosecution to the courts in early August, the criminal organization composed of the accused Brenda Lira Palacios and Antonio Jiron Bismarck, uncaptured, and Jose Dolores Talavera Siles, Orlando Valdemiro Benito Reyes Pacheco and Pastora, and arrested, the refusal of the bank rescinded the prior written purchase the property and made another as a promise of sale.

However, the document appears José Dolores Talavera Siles as a buyer of 2.102 acres of the property, for $ 786.700 million.

Talavera last January opened a savings account at another bank in U.S. dollars and between 11 and January 19, 2010 made five deposits to the same account for a little more than a million dollars. Subsequently, cashier checks issued for the establishment of fixed deposit certificates. Also created shell companies.

SAMPLE CAPACITY OF ORGANIZED CRIME

This is one of several cases that the National Police carried out in August related to the crime organized.. Another was the capture of three Mexicans with $ 200,000 when they tried to buy drugs in El Rama.

The chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly, Jose Pallais, who is also member of the National Council for Combating Drugs, acknowledged the important work of the National Police, but found that the facts related to organized crime is a sample of installed capacity they have in Nicaragua.

The congressman said, according to theorists in the field, "for every case that went bankrupt, at least there were nine successful move around the country."

Pallais is one of the initiators of the draft Law Against Organized Crime, which is not yet on the agenda of the plenary agenda.

In the bill establishing the unit occupied property manager to organized crime. To date, according Pallais, the judiciary is being distributed at your convenience so busy with the National Police.
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